Some of the examples given in this section looks less like Hyper-Converged and more like a tad smarter file clusters.

WSSD reference architecture

Design Overview

Hardware Requirements

Expansion

Server Hardware

Server and Cluster Configuration

Net Configuration

Storage Configuration

Security Configuration

Then, from requested or required workload, decide what offering (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure or Converged) and design to use.

Quality-Assurance - End to End

Comp and System Certification

IHV & Server Vendor

Win2016 Logo + SDDC Qualifiers

Solution Validation

Solution Vendor

reference architecture

Stress

Quality-Assurance

PCS - Private Cloud Simulator

Cool, but can I run it myself?

It is a public tool, but it might need a partner login to access, speaker was unsure. Speaker also suggested that, while it is possible for us to use the tool, it is not developed as a load-tester for any other than the WSSD solution developers.

Automated Deployment

This is offered by WSSD Partner, although Microsoft has a DSC-kit prepared.

Customer “demo”

Moving from Server Cluster + iSCSI

Mostly File Servers and SQL

Maxed out at 15000 IOPS

Latency spikes of 50-100ms (ouch)

Went to:

S2D

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Hyper-V + Storage on the same node

Simple

Fault tolerant

Good performance

Lower costs

Opted for DataOn S2d-3216

Tested with VMFleet

2225479 IOPS

6,6MB/s throughput

0.99 Microsoft latency

These tested numbers have held true when in production as well.

Personal Reflections

Again, very little real world talk. It’s all happy-sunshine-candyland.

I have customers that are testing HCI, and from them I know that there is some things you really have to think about to succeed. It would be nice to hear what parts of the WSSD-rollout was super easy and a little on what popped up as “gotchas”.

All these IOPS gains; are they from the S2D clusters or mainly from going from SAS/SATA to SSD? Not sure what kind of disks they had before and what performance the could have gotten from simply upgrading their storage.